The Evolution of Lisp (1993) [39 citations — 0 self]
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author = {Guy L. Steele and Jr. and Richard P. Gabriel},
title = {The Evolution of Lisp},
booktitle = {ACM SIGPLAN Notices},
year = {1993},
pages = {231--270},
publisher = {Press}
}
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Abstract:
Lisp is the world's greatest programming language---or so its proponents think. The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend the language or even to implement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch. Overall, the evolution of Lisp has been guided more by institutional rivalry, one-upsmanship, and the glee born of technical cleverness that is characteristic of the "hacker culture" than by sober assessments of technical requirements. Nevertheless this process has eventually produced both an industrialstrength programming language, messy but powerful, and a technically pure dialect, small but powerful, that is suitable for use by programming-language theoreticians. We pick up where McCarthy's paper in the first HOPL conference left off. We trace the development chronologically from the era of the PDP-6, through the heyday of Interlisp and MacLisp, past the ascension and decline of special purpose Lisp machines, to the present era of standardization activities. We then examine...
